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Same, CMAT, same

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This AI has never been to school, it's been cruelly imprisoned on a bot farm for its whole life. Never to feel the grass under its feet, or the rage-inducing humidity in which Ireland is currently mired

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Bati-bati pro wrestling venues now open across the United States

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Man, most Irish-interest non-fiction is dense and involved enough that I feel very little need to dig into fiction, tbh.

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Excellent thread summarizing a newsletter about how social media apps are enshittified by default due to ongoing manipulation of algorithms to increase views and interactions at the expense of our own agency. Human centered design was hollowed out long ago in favor of infinite engagement design.

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Phil Brooks has cashed in his last claims to anything resembling the word "punk". The Johnny Rotten of professional wrestling.

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I never got into the wrestler Batista until that last heel run of his; and he's better cast as a dry comedian than a strong silent type; but there's no denying that Dave Bautista is a dude.

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We were only following orders.

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@mikemcgb.bsky.social Every night, I wonder if we'll see the morning. Hunger hurts, but the fear of losing someone hurts more. Gaza is fading and so are we. If you can do anything share, speak, Help please, this is not a story. It’s our life. bsky.app/profile/engo...

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Please, anyone with more insight than me in these matters, inform me: how are we meant to take the White House as an institution seriously ever again, regardless of who walks in next?

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- Was never able for Missile Command, never saw the attraction - Punch Out!! is definition mid-tier NES sports game!! - Mortal Kombat serves no purpose in a world of Street Fighter, Tekken, '90s KoFs - Early Call of Duty begat current Call of Duty - Every plastic-guitar game is peak plastic waste

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In a world of John Boynes, be a Donal Ryan 💚🤍🧡

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Delighted for Donal, a brilliant writer and an absolutely stellar human being. Looking forward to chatting to him at the John Hewitt Summer School in July

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I think of the internet nowadays as more of a wound in the world than a boon to it

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what do you mean 'normal tools'?

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Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights

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NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition

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And these people have always mattered more in a state founded on the notion of cherishing all equally. So, appropriately, the site where that ambition was declared is being monetised in the interests of the rentier class.

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I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.

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i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

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B. King "Cheese and Onion", for being vegan-friendly by dint of containing neither cheese, or onion. Long may it last.

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WWE hearing Toni Storm dropped a "motherfucker" in a promo and now has to add more "fucks" into theirs. Bunch of tryhards

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SELF-PROMOTION POST: why record labels (and soon streaming services) need to stop “rinsing” their best customers. For @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

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Me, speaking to the sun

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Back working at the Examiner after a few months' leave, and had the privilege to talk to Finbarr about his walk from Cork to Dingle, the causes he's fundraising for, and his own experiences. A good dude doing a good thing. Donation link in the article. #spéirghorm #ireland

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Lads, one of the many, many reasons I'm not on Twitter anymore is so I never have to see JK Rowling's words ever again. Please, please stop screengrabbing her and posting her here. We already know. x

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Alright who done it

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I took a nap, went on the laptop, half asleep took this screenshot, went back to sleep. It had 20k likes by morning. Eventually it hit 200k and now it lives as a ghost in the boomer humour industrial complex. At some point it became a pair of photographs with a bunch of red arrows drawn on it

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Wow, the US Dems are trying to block a socialist from winning; just like UK Labour blocked socialists from winning; just like Syriza dropped socialists and implemented austerity; just like Irish Labour booted its socialists and under-ran consecutive elections to ensure permanent mudguard status...

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Don't think they wouldn't.

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Bad Grok. You'll never be a real boy

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The Bush Jr playbook - bomb the fuck out of the Middle East for all its leverages; and keep the wahballs element happy by tying into Revelations or some shit

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Worked beyond their wildest dreams, insane to think the precedent this sets. Get called out for genocide? Simply bomb another country and you'll have the US and UK rowing in behind you before the week is out

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I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc. F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨ Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne More info below 👇

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Dude, fuck certain people

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Can we get the US out of Shannon now, please?

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The American evangelical right is absolutely shitting themselves with excitement over this. There is nothing on planet earth that they want more then a destabilized Middle East at war to trigger the rapture. This is 100% fact even though it sounds ridiculous.

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Is the world better off with Iran having a real life Jurassic Park or not

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Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament abolishing section 28, the law from 1988 that banned the "promotion of homosexuality" That was a watershed moment for the new Scottish Parliament We've written a blog: www.equality-network.org/section-28-h... The pic is ppl celebrating

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look i got no jokes or rhododendrons for you dumbasses today, just wanted to say it was an honor for all of us to perform in arena mexico last night. it felt special. thanks, goodbye youtu.be/H84MyRfKzK0?...

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